FIFTH POST – OCTOBER 15, 2012 – WHO SAID EMIRATES ARE MONKEYS?

/ October 15th, 2012

FOURTH POST – OCTOBER 15, 2012 – WELL, I’LL BE A MONKEY’S UNCLE!  WHO SAID THE EMIRATES ARE SAND MONKEYS? 

Mark the Brit, ever on the watch for tastelessness and insensitivity, immediately sent this to us for review. We believe it’s worth sharing with our readers.  We told you so.

“The AFC apologises for an editorial mistake in which the UAE national team was inadvertently referred to by an inaccurate nickname on the AFC’s official website. The error, which was mainly because of referral to a popular web-based encyclopedia … was corrected immediately after it was noticed” – the Asian Football Confederation hastily backtracks after calling the UAE football team “sand monkeys”, after being misled by Wikipedia
 
We told you so, indeed.
 

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Ziad Fadel
Ziad Fadel

Attorney for 35 years and Supreme Court Certified Interpreter for Arabic/English Diploma with Honors from Ann Arbor Pioneer High School in 1968; B.A. University of Michigan in Ann Arbor 1968-1972; M.A. University of Michigan Dept. of Near Eastern Studies 1972-1974; Ph.D. Cand. Univ. of Michigan 1972-1977; Then went to law school. Credits: Harvard University for classes in Islamic Philosophy; Fellowships from University of Pennsylvania 1976; 2 from Univ. of Michigan. Read English, Arabic, German, French, Farsi, some Hebrew. Studied Ancient Greek and Latin before grad school. Michigan Supreme Court Certified Interpreter/Translator for Arabic and English

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